Sometimes I open my mouth and I say something and immediately I think “Oh, shit, I didn’t mean that.”

Sometimes?

All the time.

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Anyway, I’d originally intended to take July 4th off. It’s a slow day, and I didn’t feel like spending the whole day sitting around the store taking no deliveries. However, a sudden downshift in the number of drivers at the Franchise (dramatic downshift) encouraged me to volunteer to work today. It was indeed very slow, although I had about half a dozen deliveries when I finally left.

One of my deliveries was to a small house up in Fallston. The woman who came to the door asked if I was being kept busy, and I told her no. “Most people don’t order pizzas today.”

This is true. July 4th, most people fire up their grills and cook some hot dogs. Very few people order pizzas. But this strange look flashed across her eyes — only for a second — and I had this horrible thought that I’d just insulted her. If most people, after all, don’t order pizzas, does that make her weird or strange? Certainly, she’d almost be justified in thinking I thought this of her, from what I said (except of course, I was happy she ordered because I was bored out of my mind).